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So following my last blog post, I finished my Goomy 50 socks! And let me say its love at first sight I mean, wear. I found that as tedious as it was to knit on size 0 needles, I am more than pleased with the outcome and have already started on my next pair! Cannot wait to see how those turn out.

After finally finishing all of my holiday knit projects, the next thing up on my agenda was a baby blanket for some friends of ours. While her due date is just a few weeks away, I thought (right after Christmas that is…) I had a week or so to my own self & projects before I had to dive in. Well, that wasn’t the case as the shower invite showed up right before New Years and the shower date set for about 3 weeks later!

I panicked for about a minute, then realized that I had a week off then two working weeks before the shower. So the next day I purchased the yarn and went to work.

**worry free first night with cast on

It was only a few days later when I went to go RSVP that there was no way I would be able to even MAKE it to the shower….uuugggghhhhhh (out of town, hubs working, and train unable to make it to and from the town within a reasonable time to attend…plus the added cost of the ticket..) So well, I was pretty disappointed. But since I already had my gift and the blanket well into work, I decided to ship my gift to be received in time for the big day…

**early progress

…meaning that I lost 3-4 DAYS to finish in time- and I would be back to work….

*two nights prior to my deadline

Can we say TIME CRUNCH! So now as I sit here typing up this post, I have until midnight (its 5:30 pm currently) to finish about 8” worth of blanket along with wrapping EVERYTHING (my gift is more than a blanket!), commute home (about 40-so minutes) and somehow squeeze cooking and eating a dinner…

**UPDATE (following the night before deadline crunch-time!)

I FINISHED!! The last stitch slipped OFF the needles at midnight (ooommmppphhh) and it felt wonderful! About another 40 minutes and all was wrapped and happily packed up to be packaged and shipped Wednesday morning.

I hurried off to Fedex and I will now be thoroughly enjoying a deadline free couple of months.

So one of the first projects I would like to share is this beautiful shawl which i personally call my Birthday Knit. This is only because i splurged to purchase the yarn to knit this on my birthday weekend away this summer and i could not be happier with how it turned out.

This shawl is really The Farmhouse Shawl which I became obsessed with wanting to knit once I had found it on Ravelry. The credit for this beautiful pattern goes to @cabinfour. (Check her work out, stunning!)

This piece is also the one that has truly prompted me to begin thinking about writing my own patterns….WHICH is where I plan on starting; shawls. Once I’m through making all of my holiday knitted gifts I will make and post my own pattern. That’s right- you heard me- MY OWN PATTERN. That is an absolute guarantee. I will make the pattern available through my Ravelry account, and will document my progress here with a link to the finished product. So here the journey continues..